[CanYoAssDigIt] a joyful tghought for the new year!

Rich people in this country not only don't pay their share of taxes,
they are tightwads when it comes to charity. That is why they are
rich - because they are miserly bastards!

From a news source not to be trusted:

The tsunami and charity: I read a good piece analysis of the actual
numbers on charitable donations by Rachard Itani who began by citing
figures compiled by The London Observer, showing that Norwegians
donated the most per head of population ($13.20) followed by the
Swedes ($12.04), the Dutch ($9.16) the Australians ($5.23) and so on,
down to the Americans with a donation of $1.08 per head, and the
Euro-swollen French, whose per head donation amounted to 80 U.S.
cents. The Observer table put Saudi Arabs in the middle of the pack,
at number 6 with a donation of $4 per head, but still outranking
Canadians, Austrians, Brits, Greeks, Americans and French in their
generosity.

Itani took the Observer's numbers a stage further, by comparing
donations as a percentage of each country's per-capita income, the
average amount of money each head of population is theoretically
supposed to earn. This measure of generosity, Itani wrote, "showed
private Saudi individuals as the most generous amongst the people of
the 12 countries mentioned in the Observer article, followed in
descending order by the Swedes, Dutch, Norwegians, Australians,
Germans, Canadians, Greeks, Austrians, Brits, French, and in 12th and
final place, Americans." In fact the Saudis were 1,617% more generous
than 12th place Americans.

And since The Observer's numbers compared private, not official
donations, the generosity of Saudi individuals cannot be dismissed
away as resulting from their "oil wealth. Indeed, Saudi per-capita
income, at $8,530, pales in comparison with American per capita income
at $37,610. "Interestingly," Itani went on, " the pattern of poorer
people giving a larger percentage of their income to charity than
richer people is mirrored in domestic US private charitable donation
patterns: it's a well documented fact that poorer Americans donate a
larger percentage of their income to charity than the richer amongst
them do."

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